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The Athletics Center Quelle Fürth (LAC Quelle) is an athletics club in Fürth, which belongs to the TV Fürth 1860 . The club is one of the most successful athletics clubs in Bavaria and is one of the top clubs in Germany.
history
Established in 1969
On November 10, 1969, the athletics department of the TV Fürth 1860 was renamed the Athletics Club Quelle im TV Fürth 1860 (LAC Quelle Fürth for short). This was done to thank the former owner of the Quelle company , Gustav Schickedanz , for the support .
1970s
At the beginning of the 1970s, the walkers (e.g. Bernd Kannenberg ) were particularly successful in sport.
In 1978 the LAC became the most successful sports club in Germany with its sporting successes .
1980s
In the early 1980s, the LAC v. a. many victories at cross-country championships and in 1982 he won his 20th cross-title.
Patriz Ilg won the 3000 meter obstacle course at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 and the 5000 meter run at the European Cup in Moscow in 1985 .
Christian Haas was the club's most successful sprinter. In the 1980s he dominated the German championships in the 100-meter run almost continuously as the title holder. The sporting highlight was in 1983 the 6th place at the World Championships in Helsinki. In that year he also set a German record with 10.16 s. Over 200 meters , he has had 20.46 seconds. There were many other international missions over the years with the 4 x 100 meter sprint relay of the DLV . With this he reached 6th place at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988.
The shot putter Claudia Losch was one of the club's figureheads for a long time and won the German championships as a club member from 1983 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1991. She also became an Olympic champion in 1984 .
1990s
Under the name LAC Quelle Fürth / Munich 1860, the LAC Quelle was from 1992 the athletics starting community between TV Fürth 1860 and TSV 1860 Munich .
In 1993 this new athletics community won the first German championship title. Bernhard Zintl was German champion in the pole vault at the German Indoor Championships, further titles followed.
Since 2000
The club's great talents included the middle distance runners René Bauschinger (U20 European champion) and Julia Hiller (7th of the U20 World Championships in Beijing in 2006), Anne Kesselring (multiple German youth and junior champion, multiple finalist in U20 and U23 European championships) and World Championships), as well as Jannika John (11th of the U20 European Championships 2011 in Tallinn )
From 2003 to 2005 the LAZ Kreis Würzburg belonged to the starting community of LAC Quelle. At the end of 2009 the starting partnership with TSV 1860 Munich was ended.
A major upheaval occurred with the bankruptcy of the longstanding main sponsor and supporter Quelle . This affected both the club and the athletics department of the Munich partner, which could not replace the missing funding and could no longer adequately support top-class coaches and athletes. The most famous departures from Munich were Verena Sailer , her trainer Valerij Bauer and Christian Blum .
Since 2008: realignment and recovery
A realignment of the club structure away from the no longer financially sustainable professional (high) performance sports club towards a youth development center bore full fruit. Concentrating on one's own youth work paid off, and regional and supraregional talents are joining the club again, which is the only individual club exclusively among club associations (starting communities, LG's) to maintain its position in the top 10 ranking of the German athletics club. With Mitku Seboka (10000 m 2015) and Anne Kesselring (800 m 2012), in addition to titles in the junior and youth age classes, German championship titles could be won for the first time since Verena Sailer.
The top performers of the traditional club are currently Amelie-Sophie Lederer (U23 European champion 4 × 100 m 2015), Katharina Winkler (German school champion block all-around 2011 and other following youth championship medals up to 2015), Konstantin Wedel (U23 European championship participant, medal winner at Cross- DM), Mitku Seboka (German champion 10,000 2015), Anne Kesselring (German champion 800 m 2012), Jamie Williamson (German youth champion 800 m & 1500 m 2014 & 2015) and Julia Hiller (German champion 3000 m obstacle 2007).
Members
Olympic champions, world champions and world records
Two of the club's athletes became Olympic champions: Bernd Kannenberg won the 50 km walk in Munich in 1972 (world record with 3: 52: 44.6 h), Claudia Losch won the shot put in Los Angeles in 1984 .
Eva Wilms set a new world record in pentathlon in 1977 .
Patriz Ilg also celebrated great international successes in the 1980s ( world champion 1983 in Helsinki over 3000 meters obstacle, multiple European champion).
Others
Bernd Kannenberg
Olympic champion (50 km walking), 1972 in Munich; 2nd European Championship (20 km walking), 1974 in Rome; World record holder over 20 km, 30 km, 50 km, 30 miles and 2 hours; Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize Winner 1974.
Claudia Losch
Olympic Champion (shot put), 1984 in Los Angeles; 2nd European indoor champion, 1984 in Gothenburg; 2nd European indoor champion, 1985 in Athens; European indoor champion, 1986 in Madrid; European indoor champion, 1989 in Budapest; European indoor champion, 1990 in Glasgow; Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize winner 1990.
Patriz Ilg
World Champion (3000 m obstacle), 1983 in Helsinki; European indoor champion (3000 m), 1982 in Milan; European Champion (3000 m obstacle), 1982 in Athens; 3rd EM (3000 m obstacle), 1986 in Stuttgart; 3rd European Cup (3000 m obstacle), 1981 in Zagreb.
Florian Schwarthoff
3rd Olympic Games (110 m hurdles), 1996 in Atlanta.
Nico Motchebon
3rd Indoor World Championships (800 m), 1999 in Maebashi (Japan).
Karin Ertl
3rd Indoor World Championships (pentathlon), 2001 in Lisbon; European indoor champion, 2000 in Gent; 3rd European Indoor Championships, 1998 in Valencia.
Eva Wilms
2nd Indoor European Championship (shot put), 1980 in Sindelfingen; 3rd European Indoor Championships, 1977 in San Sebastian; 3rd Indoor European Championship, 1978 in Milan; European Cup winner, 1977 in Helsinki; World record holder in pentathlon 1977; Sportswoman of the year 1977.
Christian Haas
European indoor champion (60 m), 1984 in Gothenburg; 2nd Indoor European Championship (60 m), 1980 in Sindelfingen; 2nd Indoor European Championship, (60 m), 1983 in Budapest; 3rd EM (4 × 100 m), 1982 in Athens; Indoor European record holder over 60 m, 1980.
Birgit Clarius
3rd Indoor World Championships (pentathlon), 1993 in Toronto.
Susen Tiedtke
3rd Indoor World Championships (long jump), 1995 in Barcelona.
Klaus-Peter Nabein
2nd Indoor European Championship (800 m), 1982 in Milan; 3rd Indoor European Championship (1500 m), 1987 in Lievin.
Christoph Herle
2nd Indoor European Championship (3000 m), 1979 in Vienna.
Beatrix Philipp
3rd European Indoor Championships (shot put), 1980 in Sindelfingen.
Horst Hasslinger
3rd European Indoor Championships (round relay), 1970 in Vienna.
Christian Zirkelbach
3rd EM (4 × 100 m), 1982 in Athens.
Verena Sailer
U23 European Champion (100 m), 2007 in Debrecen; 2nd U 23-EM (4 × 100 m), 2005 in Erfurt; 2nd U 23-EM (4 × 100 m), 2007 in Debrecen; 3rd U 23 European Championship (100 m), 2005 in Erfurt.
Claudia Gesell
U23 European champion (800 m), 1999 in Gothenburg; 2nd U 23 European Championship (4 × 400 m), 1997 in Turku.
Rene Bauschinger
Junior European Champion (800 m), 2003 in Tampere; 3rd U23 European Championship (800 m), 2005 in Erfurt, 5th U18 World Championship, 2001 in Debrecen
Julia Zandt
Junior European Champion (Speer), 2003 in Tampere.
Ulrike Giesa
Junior European Champion (Discus), 2003 in Tampere.
Gabi Völkl
2nd European Junior Championships (Kugel), 1989 in Varazdin.
Christina Gehrig
Junior European Champion (Diskus), 2005 in Kaunas 3rd Youth World Championship (Diskus), 2003 in Sherbrooke.
Julia Hiller
2nd U23 European Championship (3000 m obstacle), 2009 in Kaunas. 5th U20 European Championship (3000 m obstacle), 2005 in Kaunas, 7th U20 World Championship (3000 m obstacle), 2006 in Beijing.
Amelie-Sophie Lederer
U23 European Champion (4 × 100 m), 2015 in Tallinn.
Anne Marie Kesselring
German champion (800 m), 2012 in Bochum-Wattenscheid.